…Is the same thing as having told the full truth.

It is decidedly not.

Mr. Hinderaker has long pedaled the lie that Mr. Obama’s telling the truth about the difficulties of race relations in America makes him responsible for the deaths of policemen. It is so white of Mr. Hinderaker to blame the messenger, when he gets itchy about the message. [It shouldn’t need to be repeated, but I will: Mr. Obama has never called for violence — quite the opposite.]

Mr. Hinderaker has long believed that (as has long been the GOP’s openly stated policy, since the Southern Stragegy of the early 1960s) it is an elected official’s duty to tell lies aboout race relations, in particular, in order to secure his own personal dominant position, his false comfort and ultimately safety (based on that lie). White America’s comfort with itself, to be more precise.

Mr. Hinderaker told this lie again yesterday, further politicizing the murders, by a lone and seemingly deranged ex-Marine, of three officers in Baton Rouge (and three more wounded). He tells us that these officers’ murders are Mr. Obama’s “fault” — (in some completeely unarticulated mysterious way)  — I gather because Mr. Obama told all of America an uncomfortable truth about itself.

I can’t get there.

But Mr. Hinderaker has been lying to his audience since he opened that blog, and so it is his second nature — to tell the lie that people who make him uncomfortable about his whiteness, are responsible for all manner of awful crimes.

Heaven forbid that he be willing to address the root cause of these crimes.

But that would entail his admitting that he was never the Master of the Universe he imagined.

His ego will never allow him to do it. Never.

But Mr. Obama is right: we have a problem — and only with talk, not guns — will be begin to address it.